The Digital Pioneer <digitalpioneer at gmail.com> writes:
> That said, if anyone knows a way to make it not cut and skip when playing
> OGG with mplayer niced at -19, I'd love to hear it. It's not too bad right
Use tremor.
gcc -o ~/bin/ivorbisfile_example -lvorbisidec /usr/share/doc/libvorbisidec-dev/examples/ivorbisfile_example.c
sudo renice -19 -p $$
ivorbisfile_example < foo.ogg | aplay -t raw -c 2 -f S16_BE -r 44100 -B 8000000 -
CPU usage should be strictly less than 25%.
If you have time please look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515259